326 Quarterly Reports of the Chemical Committee, 1886. 
" March 17th, 1886. 
" Sample, sealed March lOtb, 1886. 
Moisture 8*95 
*Orgauic matter and water of combination .. .. 25 "50 
Monobasic phosphate of lime 3 • 12 
Equal to tribasic phosphate of lime (bone phos-) /a.qqx 
phate) rendered soluble by acid ) ^ 
Insoluble phosphates 25 • 38 
Sulphate of lime, &c 30*82 
Insoluble siliceous matter 6 • 23 
100-00 
* Containing nitrogen 1 • 59 
Equal to ammonia 1-93 
" K anything, inferior to the previous sample. 
" J. Augustus Voelcker." 
Subsequently the following letters were received : — 
"March 30th, 1886. 
" Dear Sie, — In reply to yours of the 27th, we have been waiting the 
receipt of Dr. Voelcker's analysis and valuation from Mr. before writing 
you further. We understood our representative would be in receipt of 
it to-morrow at . 
" We regret Dr. Voelcker's report, and can assure you that it is at all 
times our wish to send out goods of the full value charged for them. 
" We will accept Dr. Voelcker's valuation upon the receipt of it, together 
with his analysis, and allow you the diflerence between it and the price 
charged — viz. 8Z. per ton upon the quantity you used last year — viz., 6 tons 
5 cwt. 2 qrs., taking back the twenty-three bags still at weight, 1 ton 
14 cwt. 2 qrs., making the 8 tons we supplied you with. 
" We trust you will think this perfectly satisfactory, and can only repeat 
our regret at the results of analysis, which please send us. 
" Soliciting your future favours, which shall meet with our best attention. — 
We are, dear Sir, yours truly, " ." 
" April 2nd, 1886. 
" Deab Sie, — We are duly in receipt of yours of yesterday, and return 
you Dr. Voelcker's analysis and letters as requested. 
" We herewith send statement showing the deductions we make tp you 
upon the basis of Dr. Voelcker's analysis and valuation of the manure 
supplied you, and we thank you for the settlement. 
" We shall feel much obliged to you if you will be good enough to send us 
the standard of value as used by Dr. Voelcker for our information, as we are 
at a loss as to his calculations of value. 
" The cost of carriage was Bs. 2d. per ton on the manure, 5 per cent, com- 
mission equal Bs., and discount 11. ; total charges 11. 16s. 2d., leaving 
6Z. 3s. IQd. net to the firm; and Mr. , who was in one of the first 
laboratories in London, has gone into the analysis of this manure, when sent 
out, and finds it : — 
Soluble phosphates 12*50 
Insoluble phosphates 10 • 87 
Nitrogen equal to ammonia 
23-37 
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